{"id":270322,"date":"2026-08-22T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270322\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:34:06","slug":"kensington-high-school-students-to-be-relocated-for-the-start-of-the-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270322\/","title":{"rendered":"Kensington High School students to be relocated for the start of the school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; There are new details about the relocation of Kensington High School students for the first half of this upcoming school year, after asbestos was found in the current building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">400 students at Kensington are being transferred to the vacant Austin Meehan Middle School in the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There had been safety concerns because it&#8217;s next to Lincoln High which has 2,200 students and Propel Academy, with 1,700 elementary students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The district says it is adding two more safety officers to the new location. With one being at Meehan and one specifically there before and after school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The schools will also have a staggered arrival and departure times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">None of the schools will share school buses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This comes after a lawsuit was filed Thursday by a parent and a community member, trying to stop the relocation before classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A judge denied that injunction Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">However, the attorney for the plaintiffs tells us he will refile the lawsuit if &#8220;the district is not true to its word&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kensington High is expected to reopen in January, once the remediation work is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; There are new details about the relocation of Kensington High School students for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113978,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-270322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-113978","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}